Sitting by the computer I upload my photos, write in my blog and chat with my friends via e-mail and other communities online. A lot of time is spent writing, but yet I tell people I hardly ever write… Without really noticing what I did I wrote a lot in my blog last year. And the more I thought about it the more it felt like a manuscript for a book, a diary form book that I would design, edit, print and distribute to friends and family and other creative souls out there! A book to hold in my hand, put in my shelf, keep as a memory of days that passed, days filled with sewing, knitting, making art, spending time with friends… Can you imagine what a fun project that would be? So I did it.
This is an excerpt from Ihanna’s blog, where she describes the process of using Lulu.com to turn her personal/creative blog into print form. Not an easy or short process but obviously extremely worthwhile and rewarding. You can preview her book at Lulu.com here or read more about it at il bloggo and if you are interested in doing this yourself you can find out how here.
Self publishing with Lulu does not have to be a big project – you could think about self publishing your patterns, zines, illustrations or images.
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I so want to do this! My biggest dilemma with an ongoing blog is when do you do it? Once a year? Once every five years? I’d love to hear from anyone about the pros and cons of going through the process multiple times vs making very large books.
Soozs, I think it depend on how much you post to your blog? I did one year and edited it down a lot and it’s still 240 pages! I couldn’t do even 2 years in the same book because I wanted it with colours photos and everyting. Contact me if you need more info!